Subject: Re: ipop3d security..

From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 15:57:16 -0800

On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Hynek Med wrote:
> there has been a security hole in a POP3 daemon (some buffer overflow
> problem), is pine's ipop3d safe from this?

To the best of my knowledge (I wrote it), this is the case.  The code is
very careful when it is root, and it setuids itself to the user as soon as
it is logged in.

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